Pirelli launches ‘Scorpion Verde’, the first ecological high performance tyre for SUVs and Crossovers, which is part of the company’s ‘Green Performance’ strategy.Last 15 March in Barcellona Pirelli presented presented to the press and to 400 dealers from all over Europe and Japan the first tyre for high environmental impact vehicles, which embodies respect for the environment, savings, better breaking capability, grip and driving pleasure without giving up performance. Scorpion Verde ensures an overall reduction in fuel consumption of up to 3.9% on urban roads and 3.4% on mixed routes (urban and extra-urban) and reduces acoustic emissions by a decibel, which is equal to 30% overall (that is like cancelling an entire lane of a three-lane motorway) and uses 10% less raw materials.
In addition to the powerful ecological vocation, Scorpion Verde guarantees high performance: improvement in braking, better wet grip and handling.
Scorpion Verde will be available on the replacement market from April 2010. Among the latest generation SUVs and Crossovers, Volkswagen’s Touareg has already chosen Scorpion Verde.

The 14th Cairo ICT, the principal fair event of the Middle East and North Africa on telecommunications and information technology, concluded on 10 February.

Pirelli Broadband Solutions took part with a high profile presence and visibility, an essential ‘visiting card’ with which to present its broad band connectivity solutions for home and office to a promising market in expansion, like North Africa.

The PBS stand was also honoured by the visit of Minister Tarek Kamel, Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, who wished that dynamic players like Pirelli Broadband Solutions would actively participate in the great opportunities of development of infrastructure and telecommunications services that Egypt offers.

Among the products presented, there was considerable interest in the USB key, which gives access to the Internet while mobile, and the set top box, which unites the capacity of a decoder (satellite, digital terrestrial, IPTV and Internet TV) to that of home multi media centres for management of personal contents by contained personnel due to the software platform Pirelli Epicentro™

EBIT MARGIN 4.9%, BETTER THAN TARGET OF 4.5% DESPITE THE IMPACT OF ADDITIONAL RESTRUCTURING CHARGES OF APPROX. 50 MILLION EUROS COMPARED WITH 30 MILLION EUROS INITIALLY FORECAST IN 2009-2011 PLAN

ATTRIBUTABLE NET RESULT RETURNS TO PROFIT OF 22.7 MILLION EUROS, COMPARED WITH A LOSS OF 347.5 MILLION EUROS IN 2008; TOTAL NET RESULT NEGATIVE FOR 22.6 MILLION EUROS, SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED OVER 2008 LOSS OF 412.5 MILLION EUROS

NET DEBT NEARLY HALVED: 528.8 MILLION EUROS (1,027.7 MILLION EUROS IN 2008) COMPARED WITH THE INITIAL TARGET OF 1 BILLION EUROS, WHICH HAD ALREADY BEEN IMPROVED AT THE END OF Q3 TO 700 MILLION EUROS

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2009 REVENUES:3,992.9 MILLION EUROS (-1.6% ON A LIKE-FOR-LIKE BASIS COMPARED WITH 4,100.2 MILLION EUROS IN 2008) COMPARED WITH A TARGET OF 3,900 MILLION EUROS (ALREADY IMPROVED AT THE END OF Q3)

EBIT POST RESTRUCTURING CHARGES: 308.5 MILLION EUROS, MORE THAN DOUBLE THE150.7 MILLION EUROS OF 2008;

EBIT MARGIN 7.7% (3.7% IN 2008), HIGHER THAN THE TARGET OF AT LEAST 7% (WHICH HAD BEEN IMPROVED AT THE END OF Q3)

IN 2009 OPERATING CASH FLOW POSITIVE FOR 561.5 MILLION EUROS (-18.1 MILLION EUROS IN 2008)